Arroyo is a small town located on the South Caribbean coast of Puerto Rico. It is one of the regions hardest hit by the recession that the country has difficulty to bounce back from due to a multitude of factors. 

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A major social and hydrological issue is the recent drought. The water table reaches a historic low in 2015, coupled with to much extraction from the aquifer and pollution thereof.  There is a social disconnect with the river and not enough community engagement to compensate with alternative strategies to save and reuse water. 

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My proposal is to provide a multi-scalar, multi-layered stormwater management strategy that starts in the neighborhoods by harvesting rain water and grey water to reuse for irrigation of ornamentals and edible crops, and where the excess is diverted to transformative percolation areas in order to recharge the aquifer rather than entering the ocean. 

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The goal is to build up resiliency culturally and hydrologically by engaging the community to reconnect with the agricultural roots the town was once to closely linked to.